30 April 2025 - Wednesday of the 2nd week of Easter
Homily
There is something that has always puzzled me in the text of Acts that we have just read. Why did the angel go to the trouble of closing the prison doors after letting the apostles out? In fact, at the beginning of the text, Luke says that the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and let the apostles out; but when the temple guard arrived in the morning, he found the doors firmly shut! There must be a symbolic meaning in this story of the doors being opened and then locked.